Candor Chasma in central Valles Marineris is filled with light-toned layered deposits thought to be sandstones, perhaps formed in an ancient wet and potentially habitable environment.
Remote Sensing
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Ice Planet Assay: Machine Learning Model Calculates The Volume Of All Earth’s Glaciers
A team of researchers led by Niccolò Maffezzoli, “Marie Curie” fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the University of California, Irvine, and an associate member of the Institute […]
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Biomass Mission: Weighing A Living Planet’s Forests
ESA’s groundbreaking Biomass satellite, designed to provide unprecedented insights into the world’s forests and their crucial role in Earth’s carbon cycle, has been launched. The satellite lifted off aboard a […]
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Immense Living Structures Seen From Orbit: Great Barrier Reef, Australia
This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image shows part of one of the world’s natural wonders – the Great Barrier Reef in the Coral Sea off the east coast of Queensland, Australia.
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Water Planet Surveys: Discovering Underwater Volcanoes
The Seabed Minerals Authority (SBMA), in collaboration with other partners such as the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), University of California Santa Barbara, and Kiva Marine, recently […]
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Orbital Biosignature Assay: Phytoplankton Bloom
The Gulf of Oman is a funnel-shaped body of water between Oman and Iran that connects to the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf to the east and the Arabian […]
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Ice Planet Recon: Drone Experiment Reveals How Greenland’s Ice Sheet Is Changing
For the first time, researchers have collected detailed measurements of water vapor high above the surface of the Greenland ice sheet. Their research, aided by a custom-designed drone, could help […]
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Can We Find Floating Vegetation On Ocean Planets?
Astronomical surveys have discovered nearly 6,000 exoplanets, including many habitable planets, which may harbor liquid water on their surfaces. The search for life on such planets is one of the […]
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Orbital Recon: How Life On Earth Can Be Measured From Space
Measurements and data collected from space can be used to better understand life on Earth.
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Using Orbital Radar To Explore An Ice Planet
This artist’s concept depicts the NISAR satellite orbiting Earth over Antarctica. Short for NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar, the mission is an equal collaboration between the NASA and the Indian Space […]